Hal not working with Kerberos5+LDAP authentication.

[Juan Miguel Corral Cano]

Hello. This is my first mail at the list, so I'm sorry if I am posting 
to the wrong place.
I have a network with PCLinuxOS workstations, authenticating against a 
Windows 2003 with Services for Unix. That is: users authenticate via 
Kerberos 5, and get their UID and GID via LDAP.
I have noticed that users authenticating this way are unable to use HAL. 
This is the output I get when I try to run lshal:

    error: dbus_bus_get: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Did not 
receive a reply.
    Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a 
reply, the message bus security
    policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network 
connection was broken.

I am sure it is not a problem in hal.conf, because of two reasons: 
first, PCLOS has a policy that allows by default to all users to access 
HAL devices. Second, when I set up the server and workstations to 
authenticate via NIS, HAL works perfectly, although they are the same 
users and groups (and same UID and GID)  than with Krb5+LDAP.
Then, it has to be a problem with DBus being unable to start the user's 
session, or with HAL being unable to get user data.
If anybody has got to make work HAL with Kerberos+LDAP, then it must be 
a problem with the distro. Otherwise, I think it has to be a bug in HAL 
or in DBus.


Best Regards. Juan.